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On Dec. 14, 2018, Aaron Cole was about to buy a new house and received an email that he thought was from his title company, directing him to make a $123,000 deposit. 2018年12月14日，亚伦·科尔打算买一栋新房子，他收到了一封以为是产权公司发的电子邮件，要求他支付12.3万美元的押金。  Cole complied, not realizing that a sophisticated hacker network had likely been spying on his communications with the title company and that although the email looked like others he had received from the title company, this time, the email address was slightly different. 科尔照办了，他没有意识到一个复杂的黑客网络可能一直在监视他与标题公司的通信，尽管这封邮件看起来和他从产权公司收到的其他邮件一样，但这一次，电子邮件地址略有不同。 A week later, the title company called, advising him it was time to send money. 一周后，产权公司打电话给他，建议他是时候寄钱了。 The Oregon man suddenly realized he had given away his family's life savings to criminals. 俄勒冈州的这名男子突然意识到，他把家人的毕生积蓄交给了罪犯。  The money was from the sale of their former house. 而这笔钱是出售他们以前的房子所得。 "It was the worst feeling," Cole said Friday. “真是太可怕了。”科尔周五说。 "And then having to go home and tell my wife that I just gave away all the money. She could tell right when I walked in the house and just sat down, and I just couldn't come up with the words to tell her." 他说:“然后我还得回家告诉我妻子，我把所有的钱都给骗子了。当我走进房子坐下来的时候，她一眼就能看出来我有事，但我就是想不出该怎么来告诉她。” In 2015, $220 million was lost to wire fraud in the United States. 2015年，美国的电信诈骗造成2.2亿美元的损失。 In 2019, losses will surpass $1.5 billion, according to WFG National Title Insurance Company. 根据世界金融集团国家产权保险公司的数据，到2019年，损失将超过15亿美元。  In the past, attempts to trick people were often clumsy, FBI agents told journalists on Friday. 美国联邦调查局特工上周五对记者说，过去，人们常常会用拙劣的手法来骗人。 Now they can be sophisticated. 而如今的诈骗犯则狡猾得多。 If people are asked via email to transfer money under a deadline, they should not rush and instead call a known number of the person the email is purportedly from and confirm the request, the agents said. 特工们说，如果有人通过电子邮件被要求在最后期限前转账，他们不应该着急，而是应该打一个已知号码的人的电话，确认这个请求。 "The emails have gotten well-crafted and quite detailed. They're highly tailored to that particular victim," said Gabriel Gundersen, an FBI supervisory special agent with the Oregon Cyber Task Force. “这些邮件写得很好，也很详细。他们是为特定的受害者量身定做的。”联邦调查局监视特别探员与俄勒冈网络任务组的加布里埃尔·甘德森说道。 "It's a social engineering piece, where they're coercing a victim to do something based on an artificial agenda or an artificial timeline." “这是一项社会工程，他们强迫受害者做一些基于人为议程或人为时间表的事情。”  In one of the largest cases of its kind in U.S. history, federal authorities in Los Angeles announced an indictment in August charging 80 people, most of them Nigerians, with stealing $6 million in an email scam and money laundering network. 这是美国历史上此类案件中最大的之一，今年8月，洛杉矶联邦当局宣布起诉80人，其中大部分是尼日利亚人，罪名是通过电子邮件诈骗和洗钱网络窃取了600万美元。 George Chamberlin, assistant special FBI agent in charge of the Portland division, said such cases can take years to develop. 负责波特兰分局的联邦调查局特别助理探员乔治·钱伯林表示，此类案件的侦破可能需要数年时间。 Partnerships between victims, local law enforcement, the FBI and its field offices overseas, and law enforcement in other countries is critical to combatting this transnational crime, said Loren Cannon, the FBI's special agent in charge of the Portland office. 负责波特兰办事处的联邦调查局特别探员洛伦·坎农说，受害者、当地执法机构、联邦调查局及其海外办事处和其他国家执法机构之间的伙伴关系对打击这一跨国犯罪至关重要。  In Oregon, losses surpassed $24 million from computer-related crimes from Jan. 1 through Sept. 30 of this year. 在俄勒冈州，从今年1月1日到9月30日，网络相关犯罪造成的损失超过了2400万美元。 For all of last year, $23.5 million was stolen, the FBI said. 美国联邦调查局称，去年全年有2350万美元被盗。 Most of the money has been lost in so-called business email compromise scams, in which organized crime groups trick victims into making wire transfers to bank accounts controlled by the criminals. 大部分的钱都在所谓的商业电子邮件诈骗中丢失了，有组织的犯罪集团欺骗受害者将钱电汇到了罪犯控制的银行账户上。 Cole, from the Portland suburb of Oregon City, was lucky. 来自俄勒冈州波特兰郊区的科尔很幸运。 His title firm, WFG National Title Insurance Company, hired him -- for the same amount of money he lost -- to be a spokesman to warn others about cyber scams. 他的产权公司——世界金融集团国家产权保险公司聘请了他担任发言人，来就网络诈骗向其他人发出警告。 END- 感谢关注 跟amber一起看世界 |
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